W06: Individualism vs. Collectivism

Feb, 10.2022

  More than what is acceptable or not in a society, \Individualism or Collectivism are positions the person performs and stands for in the society, she, he, belongs. They are formed maybe from ancestral cultures which oriented to the group preservation nor the self one. Even more, influences can be attached. The point is when the person starts behaving like the individual of the group he, she fits. Both groups will watch each other with suspicious eyes since their attitudes many times are contradictory, or more.

  In the class with the same name, Brother Ivers commented that in some places of Latin America changing the political party can be considered a betrayal, which in the USA, is naturally taken as an individual choice. Let me say I have seen in my youth the courage of my mother to vote in a different party of her own parents, and their deception and bad feelings, especially because it was a Left-handed candidate. And some years later, this same candidate changed from the party. Many denied supporting him considering it a betrayal. But I saw my mother realized it was a necessary movement in politics and voted in him again, his name was Hugo Batalla. They won the elections and he was the Vice \president of Uruguay from 1995 to 1998. It wasn't easy!

 Another topic talked was about the American children, who are known as having the benefits of expression, and making their own choices than many others.

  Anthropologist Empada Uhedra, from the Philippines, said: "For instance, For instance, in the Philippines, as well as in many other Asian countries, children are rarely allowed, if at all, to their own thing without the consent of their parents"

 The Midiatic resources have had been shown to us a progressist youth with uncommon benefits like "privacy", "car", "computers, "campus" etc. With the advance of technology throughout the globe many of these items have changed, even "campus" since, at this moment, we are students online. In my opinion, independence is teachable. There must be a balance in what you allow your little person to do by himself, herself, when, and how, and what is under your command.

Even individualism must be taught with security

In my opinion, are two ways to seek the same, without 

a balance.